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		<title>Fictionalised Reality – new works by Urban Theatre Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2010/01/06/the-fence</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alicia Talbot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urban Theatre Projects (UTP), originally founded as Death Defying Theatre (way back in the ‘80’s) is a professional theatre company based in Bankstown (Sydney, NSW). Their tag line is &#8216;Stories of Contemporary Life&#8216; and they make new theatre works that reflect such stories and images of contemporary Australian life, with a focus on people and cultures living in urban environments. In just over a week their new show “The Fence” opens as part of the Sydney Festival 2010. I haven’t seen the show (yet) – but their method of work is interesting, reflecting a hybrid creative approach to developing works that reflect contemporary experiences, lives and stories and engage with the experiences and expertise of members of the communities they are representing without producing documentary per se. The Fence is a story that takes place in the family home of Mel and Joy in Sydney’s western suburbs. It investigates the experiences and resilience of five middle-aged Australians, four of whom grew up in care as part of the Stolen Generations and Forgotten Australians. It will be performed in a purpose built house in Sydney’s Western Suburbs. The process for developing The Fence has been a mixture of collaboratively-devised works by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOMMA &#8211; collaborative women&#8217;s theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/07/fomma-collaborative-theatre</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, at the invitation of Doris Difarnecio, Director of the Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA in San Cristobal, I visited FOMMA and was introduced to a truly fascinating organization and set of projects. In a previous post I mentioned the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, which is based at NYU and has partnered with FOMMA (Fortaleza del las Mujeres Mayas de los Altos) to found their first Latin American centre in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. In 1994 Petrona de la Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa founded FOMMA – which aims to support and stengthen Mayan women of the highlands of Chiapas. Both women had been writers with Sna Tzi’bojom (The House of the Writer) (see a previous post for a few links to things about Sna Tzi&#8217;bojom) and had written a number of successful plays about Indigenous womens lives in the highlands of Chiapas.  If you read spanish check out their biographies on the FOMMA webpage. FOMMA does a variety of community development and support projects, including supporting literacy and education of women in 2 local Indigenous languages (Tzotzil &#38; Tzeltal), providing training and enterprise development, such as running a bakery, a clothing and textiles workshop,  providing childcare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/07/20/the-hemispheric-institute-of-performance-and-politics</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in the intersection of arts and politics, arts activism and theatre, or even just interesting grassroots and community movements in the Americas, check out the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. In 2008 this institute opened a centre in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chipas, in collaboration with Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA), a Mayan women&#8217;s theater collective. Perhaps one day such a creative collaboration will be established between an Australian university and a remote community or town in the Kimberley&#8230; Through the websites (follow links above) you can access a vast digital library of artist profiles and video footage of performances across the Americas. Hours of interesting reading, viewing and contemplation&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>sophiehaviland.com goes live</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/07/05/sophiehaviland-com</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bridge Project]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sophie Haviland is my sister and she has a great new website, www.sophiehaviland.com! Such a plug might be seen as shameless nepotism, but this site is a window into a whole world of collaborative art projects which most people will not know about, and is well worth a visit for anyone interested in international collaborative art practice and contemporary visual art. Sophies current projects span film, music, theatre and international exchange. The Bridge Project, a collaboration between Sophie, and Richard Foreman, has run workshops in 10 countries over the past 5 years. The two week intensive workshops bring together professionals and students interested in performance, film, art and production in an art practice ,  a pedagogical and creative practice developed out of Haviland and Foreman&#8217;s many years of collaboration. Each participating country has created an archive of  collaboratively made video material that is available for use in art works by all Bridge Project participants. So far  ongoing processes of making, dialogue and exhibitions have seeded in Japan, Portugal and England. Click on Gallery  at sophiehaviland.com and see video loops of 21 Monologues - Sophie&#8217;s video works for installation from the Bridge Project material. Sophie&#8217;s current art practice includes 21 Monologues as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casting Light: Theatre scripts of stories of personal experiences of mental illness</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/06/25/casting-light-theatre-scripts-of-stories-of-personal-experiences-of-mental-illness</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenny Savigny has been doing a number of interesting projects in Canberra (Australia&#8217;s capital city) for a number of years, using creative methods such as theatre and writing to work with issues to do with mental health. In the past she&#8217;s developed and toured performances in schools about experiences of eating disorders, and recently has been involved in a project team through MIEACT (Mental Illness Education ACT) putting together a publication of 13 scripts about personal experiences of mental illness for use by schools.The kind of work Jenny does brings together participatory approaches to story telling based on real life stories, with creative processes (such as theatre) to communicate such stories in ways that are safe for those who&#8217;s stories they draw on, as well as useful for broader health promotion purposes. As the Casting Light website says, &#8220;The beauty of the Casting Light lies in bringing together three elements – the authentic voices of people who live with mental illness, the script-writing talents, professionalism and experience of an educational playwright, and mental health promotion principles&#8221; . The scripts, along with supporting educational materials about mental illness, are available for download on the MIEACT website. Jenny has just received funding for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headphone Verbatim Theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/03/22/headphone-verbatim-theatre</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative non fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verbatime Headphone Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Radio National (Artworks program) today had a story about an interesting form of theatre called Verbatim Headphone Theatre. The Artworks webpage about the story says: &#8220;Stories of Love and Hate uses a technique called Headphone Verbatim Theatre, which was begun by the London based Non-Fiction Theatre in 2000 and is pioneered in Australia by the theatre director, Roslyn Oades. It&#8217;s a technique where actors use headphones to listen to interviews and repeat what they hear. It gives the final theatrical experience a certain immediacy and connects the production closely to the community from which the interviews are taken &#8212; they go to the show to hear their own voice.&#8221; Its a method that uses real peoples stories and own words in a fictionalised form &#8211; providing some anonymity and distance from the intimacy of real peoples experiences, yet maintaining an integrity of peoples own words. I am interested in forms of non-fiction that use creative methods to enhance, protect, or explore the meanings and implications of real life stories. Click here to go to the ABC site where you can listen to the full program (well worth doing as its all about the voices, words and ways of speaking).]]></description>
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